Reddit reviews New Feast: Modern Middle Eastern Vegetarian

These "rules" vary from culture to culture. Often you can pick up a cookbook that's focused on a specific culture's food and find that it includes a section about how to organize meals, plus sample meals made up of recipes from the cookbook. For example, this Chinese cookbook features a section of "menu ideas" with 8 menus for 2 people, 7 for 4 people, and 5 for 6 people, plus it has a section called "planning a Chinese meal" which explains how Chinese meals are served, how they are eaten, and so on. This Middle Eastern book has something similar, etc.